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5 unusual facts about county cricket


Edward Peake

Edward Peake (29 March 1860 – 3 January 1945) was an English-born rugby union three-quarter and county cricketer.

Fahad Alhashmi

In March 2008, he played for the UAE in matches against English county sides Essex, Lancashire and Yorkshire.

Randy Horton

A top level cricketer offered trials to play for Worcestershire County Cricket Club, Horton turned down the opportunity to play English County cricket and Football League football for Huddersfield Town to stay in a warmer climate following completing his Oxford University Institute of Education Teacher Training Certificate from Culham College in Oxfordshire, England.

Ron Saggers with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948

Tallon was then rested and Saggers took his place for the next county match against Leicestershire.

Scott Huey

He also played several matches against various English county sides and the MCC.


Colin Stansfield Smith

His county cricket was played for Lancashire, who capped him in 1957, but he also appeared for Cambridge University (for whom he gained his blue) among a number of other teams.

Ek Park

Following independence the ground has been used by the Zambia national cricket team, who played county opponents in the form of Gloucestershire, Glamorgan and Warwickshire at the ground in the 1970s, though the matches held no official status.

Gerry Gazzard

His two sons, Paul and Roger, also played for Penzance, and grandson Carl is a county cricketer for Somerset.

Michael Slater

A specialist right-handed batsman as well as a very occasional bowler, Slater represented the New South Wales Blues in Australian domestic cricket and played English County cricket with Derbyshire.

Netherlands national cricket team

Several Dutch cricketers have also played at first-class level elsewhere, the most successful of these probably being Roland Lefebvre who played for Somerset and Glamorgan in English county cricket as well as for Canterbury in New Zealand.

Ross Wood

Wood first stood in county cricket in a match between Buckinghamshire and Berkshire in the 1991 Minor Counties Championship.

Steven Lubbers

A reasonable 1990 ICC Trophy followed, and he led two tours of England in 1991 and 1992, playing a total of eight minor games against county opposition, although seven were lost and one ruined by rain.


see also

Ben Hutton

He has commenced a new career in the City of London and also completed the term of Don Bennett as a member of the Middlesex County Cricket Club Executive Board (2011–2012).

Buckinghamshire County Cricket Club

The present Buckinghamshire CCC was founded on 15 January 1891 as "Bucks County Cricket Club" with the Rothschild family prominent in its formation.

Controversies involving the Indian Premier League

Because the inaugural IPL season coincided with the County Championship season as well as New Zealand's tour of England, the ECB and county cricket clubs raised their concerns to the BCCI over players.

Faf du Plessis

Lancashire coach Mike Watkinson praised du Plessis' fielding, saying "if there's a better fielder in county cricket I've not seen him this season".

Heath Streak

He retired from international cricket in October 2005 to become captain of Warwickshire County Cricket Club having previously played county cricket for Hampshire.

James Hockley

During his hiatus from county cricket, Hockley taught sports at Marlborough House School in Cranbrook, whilst continuing to play cricket for Hartley Country Club.

Jason de la Peña

The following season he played no county cricket at any level, his only appearance of note being in a minor match, for the Earl of Arundel's XI against Ireland in a friendly one-day game in August.

Jock Tait

A right-hand bat and occasional right-arm off break bowler, Tait played forty four first class cricket matches for Glamorgan between 1921 and 1926, having played minor county cricket for the club since 1911.

Johnnie Stewart

Born in Tonbridge, Kent, Stewart was the son of Dr Haldane Campbell Stewart, who was also musical but in a different sphere - he was organist and choirmaster at Magdalen College, Oxford, the director of music at the Tonbridge School, Kent, and also notable as a cricketer on the Kent County Cricket Team.

Liam Botham

Botham initially followed in his father's footsteps, playing county cricket for Hampshire.

Maurice Jewell

When county cricket resumed in 1919, he played five times for Sussex in the Championship (taking his first wicket, that of Andy Ducat, in June) but also appeared for Worcestershire (who did not re-enter the Championship until the following season) in a number of first-class friendly matches.

R. E. Foster

He had played for Worcestershire while they were still a minor county but in 1899, their inaugural season as a first-class county, he and his brother Wilfrid Foster both scored two hundreds in a match (against Hampshire), a feat which remains unique in county cricket.

Sophia Gardens

As well as the Glamorgan County Cricket Ground, Sophia Gardens also contains the Sport Wales National Centre, Y Mochin Du public house, an exhibition area, a car park with coach parking facilities and also provides vehicular access, via Sophia Close, to the caravan and camping site in Pontcanna Fields.

SWALEC Stadium

On 4 March 2008, Glamorgan Cricket Club announced a 10 year sponsorship deal with SWALEC, thought to be the biggest single sponsorship by a county cricket club, giving SWALEC the naming rights to the new stadium, which is worth in excess of £1.5 million over 10 years.

Torrisholme

It also hosts Lancashire County Cricket district junior matches and is used as an outground for Lancaster Royal Grammar School, the University of Lancaster and the University of Cumbria.

Townsley

Andrew Townsley, first class cricketer who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1974 and 1975

Trinity Catholic School

Jim Troughton, professional cricketer with Warwickshire County Cricket Club